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Bishop
Motiejus Valančius Birthplace-Museum
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Bishop Motiejus Valančius Birthplace-Museum |
Contacts
Address: Nasrėnų kaimas, LT-97330, Kūlupėnų seniūnija, Kretingos rajonas.
Tel. (+370 ~ 445) 48 722.
E-mail:
muziejus[at]nasrenai.lt
Director – Algirdas Čėsna.
www.nasrenai.lt
Information for
Visitor
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Sunday 9–17.
Admission:
adults – 3 Lt;
pupils, students – 2 Lt,
pensioners – 2 Lt,
child under 7, disabled – free.
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| Bishop Motiejus Valančius |
Motiejus Valančius (1801–1875)
Initiator
of Lithuanian national revival. Rector of Varniai Seminary (1845–1850),
Bishop of Samogitia (1850). He founded parish schools which taught in
Lithuanian, and encouraged priests to perform educational work, to write
books, and to collect data on folklore. Motiejus Valančius organized a
sobriety movement. After the imposition of a ban on Lithuanian writings, he
took care of the publication of Lithuanian writings in Prussia and their
distribution in Lithuania. He founded an organisation of the supporters of
press and bookcarriers. Motiejus Valancčus wrote about 70 educational
narratives and stories, which provide information on the rural life,
material and spiritual culture of Samogitia and Upland Lithuania in the
middle of XIX c., and some data on the history and geography of Lithuania.
Those works arouse the national and civic consciousness. His historical book
Žemaičių vyskupystė (The Diocese of Samogitia, 1848) was the first
scientific work published in Lithuanian which describes the development of
the Diocese in the XV–XVI c. He was Professor at Vilnius Clerical Academy in
1840–1842, and in 1842–1845 – at St. Petersburg Clerical Academy.
Photos from the Archive of the Museum
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